Some more photos from Lang.Net

Here’s a few more photos from Lang.Net.

Here’s Danny Thorpe. Danny talked about some of the work that he’s doing on Live.com gadgets. One of the really interesting ideas that Danny floated was writing a compiler that would compile other programming languages into JavaScript. Since JavaScript is the world’s most ubiqutous computing runtime, this would potentially enable lots of other languages to play in the AJAX / Web landscape.

Here’s John Gough striking a pose while talking about Ruby.NET:

This is Gary Flake, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft who gave a talk on the forthcoming Internet Singularity.

This is Jim Purbrick who’s showing off his hacks that enable mobile code on the CLR:

Gilad Bracha

and Shriram Krishnamurthi had a spirited debate about whether continuations were useful or not. It was certainly entertaining for the audience. I fall on the side of thinking that continuations are not all that useful, even in the canonical web forked navigation case, because they’re attempting to hide a lot of complexity behind a leaky abstraction.

Anders Hejlsberg, another Technical Fellow at Microsoft, gave an great introductory talk on LINQ and how it’s implemented on top of anonymous functions in C# 2.0. He is also a rather animated speaker, as this sequence of photos shows: